THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, March 6, 19 59-32

U. S. Considers Prospect of Solving Same Aid Given
Israel-Arab Problem to Be 'Remote' to All Refugees,

MACON, Ga. (JTA) — The
prospects of a real solution of
the Israel-Arab problem was
termed "remote" by William
M. Rountree, Assistant Sec-
retary of State for Near East-
ern Affiars, in a public address
here. He said, however, that
the United States would con-
tinue to seek some basis for a
more stable arrangement among
the states involved in the con-
troversy.
Speaking before the Macon
Civitan Club, Rountree voiced
hope and confidence that the
United States would "be able
to continue progress toward
achieving a more stable peace
in the Middle East," He said:
"The tension between the
Arab states and Israel con-
tinues to be one of the most
complex and bitter of the dis-
putes in the area, casting a
cloud over the entire region.
The United States sincerely
hopes for the alleviation of
these tensions, and it has on
various occasions indicated the
form and substance of assis-
tance it would render to a
solution. Although the current
situation and attitudes render
remote a final solution, we
continue, both directly and
through the United Nations, to
seek some basis for a more
stable arrangement among the
states involved."

Declaring that, for decades,
there was a growing conflict
between the Arab states and
the increasing Jewish popula-
tion of Palestine, over the
Jewish desire for the establish-
ment of a national homeland.
Rountree said that when Israel
was created "many nations,
motivated by the plight of the
Jewish people, and by the long
association of the race with
Palestine, supported this move."
He related that Israel "was
immediately opposed by the
Arabs, who also claimed Pales-
tine, and a brief war resulted.
The war was brought to a
conclusion by a series of
armistice agreements, but the
legacy of an uneasy frontier
and hundreds of thousands of
Arab refugees now remain."
The Arab refugees, he de-
clared, have since 1948 been
"a particular concern to the
United States." He said the
United States provided 70 per
cent of the United Nations
funds used for Arab refugees,
but "the Soviet Union, despite
its claim for friendship for the
Arabs, has made no contribu-
tion whatsoever.. We continue
to demonstrate our interest in
the welfare and in the future
status of these people, which
we believe should be assured
through repatriation, or re-
settlement with proper com-
pensation."

21 Youths Charged with Having
Vandalized East Harlem Synagogue

Agency Reports

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Tel Aviv claims that the Jew-
ish Agency does not give the
same financial aid to immi-
grants from North America as
it does to other immigrants were
aired and refuted at the eighth
annual convention of the Asso-
ciation of Americans and Can-
adians in Israel.
S. Z. Shragai, head of the im-
migration department of the
Jewish Agency, told the 200
delegates a n d hundreds of
guests that the Jewish Agency
has "spent much more on aiding
immigrants from North America
than from any other single
country."
He added that "you can quote
me as saying that there is not
a single case of a North Ameri-
can immigrant not coming be-
cause he did not get the help
of the Jewish Agency."
The representative of the
Minister of the Interior similar-
ly rebutted a complaint that the
government was making diffi-
culties for "temporary resi-
dents." He said that such a
resident could not expect to re-
tain that status permanently.
Referring to the many Ameri-
can and Canadian settlers who
still held that status, the repre-
sentative said that "in three
years or so a person should de-
cide whether he wishes to be-
come an immigrant or not."
Reports on the association's
activities were presented by
Carl Alpert, president, and M.
Grienfeld, secretary. They said
that in its 10 years of existence
the association h a d served
American settlers in various
ways and was recognized re-
cently by the Jewish Agency
American Department as an of-
ficial branch.
They reported that the asso-
ciation was dealing with prob-
lems involving pensions of aged
Americans in Israel. The pen-
sions now total $500,000 a year.
They • also told the delegates
that the association has under-
taken a housing program for its
members.

Around the World...

A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News-Gathering Media.

Europe

WIESBADEN—Suspension of two officials of the Wiesbaden
Indemnification Bureau was announced by Heinrich Schneider,
State Minister of Interior for Hesse, the men having been
accused of making anti-Semitic remarks about Jewish claim-
ants and of singing anti-Semitic songs during a party held in
their office.
STUTTGART—In a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, the Baden-Wurttenburg Ministry of Justice denied that
Ludwig Zind, the Offenberg teacher who was sentenced for
anti-Semitic remarks, had been aided by an underground organ-
ization in his flight to Cairo last October.
BONN—Authorities are blaming Communists for a spate
of new acts of anti-Semitic vandalism in various parts of West
Germany . . . The University of Marburg has confiscated an
anti-Semitic leaflet which Arab students on its campus had
attempted to circulate, according to information revealed by
Dr. H. G. van Dam, secretary general of the Central Council
of Jews in Germany.
PARIS—A Yiddish-language Communist newspaper said
that the Soviet Union will send a delegation of eight Soviet
Jewish artists to participate in celebrations here of the Sholem
Aleichem centenary sponsored here by Jewish Communist
groups, scheduled for March 15. This is believed to be the
first occasion since World Yar II that the Soviet Union will
have sent a Yiddish-language cultural representation out of
the USSR.
LONDON—Two well-known Jewish actors, hailing from
Riga, Abraham Yaacov Chash (Grodner), and N. Kaddisch-
Chash, are among recent repatriates from the Soviet Union,
says Folkstimme . • . Prof. Arnold Toynbee, renowned historian,
who is known to hold controversial views on Jewish problems,
will be one of the speakers at the March Jewish Forum discus-
sion meeting of the World Jewish Congress British Section in
London, with Sir Henry d'Avigdor Goldmid, Conservative mem-
ber of Parliament, Rabbi Kopul Rosen, headmaster of Carmel
College, and Dr. Cecil Roth, noted Jewish historian, the other
members of the panel whose subject will be "Is there a Jewish
Future in the Diaspora?" . . . A commentator in one of Cairo
radio's monotonously vituperative attacks on Jewish immigra-
tion, Israel and Zionism, referred to Arnold Toynbee's book, "A
Study of History," according to which the Arabs in Palestine
were "the innocent victims of the old hatred of the Jews for
Europe; undoubtedly, the impulse which prompts one to commit
against a neighbor , the same crime which has been committed
against one by another is the basest feeling which can be enter-
tained by man." . . . The Second Jewish Book Award of the
World Jewish Congress British Section has been made to Rabbi
Dr. H. J. Zimmels for his book "Ashkenazim and Sephardim" .. .
"The Dual Image: A Study of the Figure of the Jew in English
Literature," by Harold Fisch, Associate Professor and Head of
the Department of English Studies at Bar-Ilan University,
Israel, forms the latest addition to the Popular Jewish Library
series of the World Jewish Congress British Section.

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Police, broken and windows Smashed
using the clue of a school news- in the vandalism for total dam-
paper found on the scene ages estimated at more than
rounded up 21 youths accused $2,000. Detectives found a news-
of looting and wrecking the paper published at P.S. 72 which
interior of the Beth Hamedrosh is next to the Synagogue.
Synagogue in East Harlem.
They went to the school and
Religious scrolls were torn conducted an investigation
and stolen, f u r nit u r e was which resulted in charges of
burglary, malicious mischief
and delinquency against Angel
JNF Called Principal
Rodriguez, 19 and Angel Bonet,
United States
Immigrant Employer;
17. Nineteen others, ranging in
CINCINNATI—The U. S. 6th District Court of Appeals
Dr. Levine Re-Elected age from eight to 15, were ac-
upheld the conviction of John Kasper, Tennessee racist and
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The cused of delinquency.
anti-Semitie, who is serving a jail sentence on charges of inter-
Jewish National Fund is the
fering with integration in Clinton, Tenn.
.
"principal employer" of the
NEW YORK—Reviewing the English , version of "The Golem"
new immigrants who are arriv- Austria Closes Camp That Housed
—which opened in New York last week—Times critic Arthur
ing in Israel now as part of the
Gelb says that though "the play has been regarded as a Yiddish
mass influx from Eastern Eu- 4,000
Hungarian
Jewish Refugees masterpiece
,
b
since its completion in 1922, it seems a fair assump-
rope, Dr. Harris L. Levine,
VIENNA (JTA)—The Jewish who passed through Austria af- tion that it has lost some of its poetic flavor in translation. What
President of 'JNF of American
refugee camp at Korneuburg, I ter the uprising, 12,000 were may be in Yiddish a happy blending of folklore, philosophy and
said in his
near Vienna, through which moved to countries other than symbolism," Gelb complains, "turns out to be a murky and
report to the
thousands of Hungarian Jewish Israel through HIAS; 3,000 somewhat ludicrous horror story."
annual meet-
refugees passed during the Hun- went to Israel and the others
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Agriculture Benson, reviewing
ing of the
garian uprising in 1956, was went to other European coun- the new humane-slaughter law, completely omitted Shehita. He
JNF board of
closed this week. Seventy-five tries or were able to establish designated as humane only three forms of slaughter: 1—Chemi-
directors. Dr.
refugees, still living in the permanent residence in Austria. cal, carbon dioxide. 2—Mechanical, captive bolt stunners or gun-
Levine was re-
camp, were transferred to
shot. 3 — Electrical, current for stunning. Benson revealed
elected unani-
Anastan to await emigration to Order Confiscation
the three methods at a news conference here. Though he omitted
mously to a
new homes overseas.
Shehita officially, it was pointed out that religious ritual re-
tenth term as
quirements were exempt, since they expressly comply with public
president.
Closure of the Korneuburg of Anti - Semitic
policy under the law.
Declaring
camp marked the end of an-
Pamphlet in Germany
that the JNF
other chapter in Jewish post- Pamp
Israel
K AR L SRUHE, Germany
must reclaim
war history—the flight of some
JERUSALEM—The
Israeli
Foreign Ministry and the Israeli
an d prepare
18,000 Jews from the Common- (JTA)—Immediate confiscation
ist regime in Hungary. The of an anti-Semitic pamphlet, Export Bank announced an agreement with the Mayer Invest-
at least 60,000
camp was opened by the Aus- which angered West German ment Corporation for the financing of exports to the extent of
acres of Is- Dr. Levine
raeli land for agricultural set- trian Government in January, officials all the way up to $2,500,000 to Liberia, Israeli exports to be construction equip-
tlement of the East European 1957, and was operated by the Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, ment and building materials required for a $10,000,000 project
newcomers, he pointed out that American Jewish Joint Distri- was ordered by the Federal in the African republic undertaken by a joint Israeli-Liberian
construction company . . . The successful trial shipment of
"while these men and women bution Committee. It gave
.
- shel Supreme Court.
The pamphlet, "How Many smoked tuna fish to Italy and Switzerland has created the pos-
will be preparing the soil for ter to some 4,000 refugees, most
their own settlement, they will of whom were aided by the World Wars Must the Nation sibility of the export next winter of $500,000 worth of tuna to
be in the employ of the Jewish JDC and HIAS to emigrate to Lose?," was written by Fried- Europe, Jacob Merridor, director of the newly-established Israel-
National Fund which will pay overseas points. rich Nieland, a lumber mer- Japan Fishing Company, having said, in making the prediction,
them wages for work on soil re-
Of the' 18,000 Hungarian Jews chant, and published in 1957 that the company is now operating chartered ships manned
by Adolf Heimberg, a printer. by Japanese crews who are training Israelis . . . The cancer
clamation and tree planting. Al-
The p a m p h 1 e t denied that service of the United Order of the True Sisters, an American
ready the JNF is the principal
employer in the Lakhish and Begin Construction on 6,000,000 Jews were murdered women's group, has undertaken to provide funds and equipment
Adullam areas southwest of Jordan River Pipeline by the Nazis, and charged that for establishment and maintenance of an isotope laboratory for
treatment here, at the Tel Hashomer Hospital.
Jerusalem, where 1,500,000
Jewry" ruled cancer
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Con- "international
, TEL AVIV—Both the government and the Israel Federation
trees were planted last year on
the
world.
of Labor were called upon by Dr. Yeshayahu Foerder, chair-
2,000 acres of land. It is through struction of ' the huge water
The Hamburg Superior Crim- man of the board of directors of the Mortgage Bank, to refrain
this work that the JNF is pro- pipeline that will bring waters _ final
Court failed to act against from approving direct or indirect wage increases, since such
viding an alternative to the dole from the Jordan River south
ward
to
the
Negev
desert
was
the
pamphlet
and its writer raises, Dr. Foerder said, would hamper construction of new hous-
of the new immigrants, thus
and publisher, asserting • that ing needed for the shelter of the large influx of new immigrants
avoiding a situation which, in begun Tuesday.
Specially-fitted freight cars the West German Federal Law now coming to Israel . .. Leaders of Federation of Labor met
addition to being unproductive,
tends to have a demoralizing took the pipes, each with a against preaching anti-Semitism with Finance Minister Levi Eshkol and Pinhas Saphir, Minister
bore of more than eight feet, and race hatred n, because it of Trade and Industry, and discussed the possibility of giving
effect."
some concessions to low income families to enable those of lower
During the last ten years, the and weighing 30 tons, from the
to "international economic status to meet the higher prices for consumer goods
Jewish National Fund raised factory at Migdal Ashkelon to referred
$102,000,000, according to an the vicinity of the construction Jewry" and did not attack the ,which went into effect last week when tax and customs levies
were raised.
Jewish people.
announcement at the meeting. site.